Illustrated by Caroline Jayne Church, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 2011.
Hardcover edition, 32 pages, ISBN 978-0-399-25025-5.
Big brother and sister celebrate their new sibling's milestones in rhyming guesses:
Baby likes to talk a lot.
But understand?
We do not.
Until one day,
what's that we heard?
Was that our Baby's very first...
WORD!?
Church's vivid pastel backgrounds highlight the simply delineated family figures in this joyful romp through first kisses, smiles, peek-a-boos, laughs, crawling, teeth, books, steps and falls leading up to the first birthday party.
A cheerful focus on family closeness, and a celebratory way to trace important landmarks of baby's development for older children. Walton adds a first year milestone poster on the back of the dust jacket with spots for photos of the momentous events. For fun, the author/illustrator photos on the fly leaf are baby pics.
Recommended for family reading, as well as for a story hour about babies or families.
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